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Unless you have a driver that will allow you control of the fan from |
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inside the OS it's all handled by the BIOS. That's what the i8kutils |
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does for inspiron 8xxx laptops, don't know about other manufacturers. |
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-SaintDev |
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On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 21:37:14 +0100, Pavel Riha <pavel.riha@××××××××.cz> wrote: |
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> On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 12:15:44PM -0200, Francisco Figueiredo Jr. wrote: |
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> > I'm facing a little issue with my laptop and cpu fan. |
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> > ... |
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> > Kernel only turns off my cpu fan after the temperature passes the 48C |
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> > and come back to 42, 43. And turns it on again when it reaches the 51C. |
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> > When I reach this level, it is ok. Kernel works as expected turning the |
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> > fan on and off. The problem is before reaching this level, the fan |
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> > doesn't turn off. |
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> > I'd like to know if there is something I could do to tell kernel to turn |
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> > off my fan if temperature is below 42C for example, even after a fresh |
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> > boot, when temperature starts with 35C. |
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> hmm ... are you sure, that the kernel even CAN stop the fan? |
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> I thing that no :( |
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> I thing it's the bios(?) work or so. |
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> Pavel |
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> Pavel Riha |
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> 640 kB should be enough for everyone. |
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> Bill Gates, 1981 |
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